SFM Cloth Dolls with Attitude! NZ

Wednesday, August 28, 2013

I am making two baby dolls jsut now, to use as models for baby clothes in a shop. These are Kezi Mathews gorgeous Oregon Babies and I just love them!

So easy to make and so effective for children to play with. They come with a face transfer, but I lost mine, so had to do my own off the pattern.

Their arms are not made yet. I'll post a pic when the babies are done!

The other little doll is a challenge from Cloth Doll Artistry I thought I'd enter and see if I could make.

These dolls could be any size. I just copied a picture and coloured it with prismacolour pencils and pens (on paper) Front & Back. I scanned this and put it in a word doc. I used printable fabric and printed it out. I should have left it to completely dry before handling it. I left it in the sun and it faded or the ink was absorbed into the cloth - or both!

Anyway, not giving up now I was this close, I stitched it together and stuffed it, because I had to see how it would turn out! It was easy to stitch and turn, so after stuffing it, I went over it again with the pencils and pens. It is no good for children, but as a little project - I am pleased to know I can do this! Yay! Now I have to learn how to make it more permanent so children could play with it!

Thursday, August 22, 2013

Another fruitful evening with the OCDC group on Tuesday. Here is Joanne's Santa, posing with Julie's High Octave Hester. Seems these two are related - hopefully! Same designer at least!

Some art dolls in the making here, by Judy! These dolls are fun and Judy had good ideas about them. Hope she brings them next week! I'm dying to see what they will look like now!

Julie has been making these cute wee mermaids! Her daughter has also had a go at drawing the faces - pretty accurately too! She's only 8!

Joanne has been making this doll for a wee while now. Jo likes to have many things on the go at once and does a bit on each one. It's amazing how they all come together!

I've been making an Aboriginal doll called Kyeema, meaning 'of the dawn'. It's an online class with Marilyn Halcomb and I am loving it! It's similar but different to what I make and already I have learned some new techniques!

I have enjoyed making a dark skinned doll and this cotton lycra fabric is wonderful to work with!

Friday, August 16, 2013

I was looking through my Blog and couldn't find a picture of this fellow. It's probably lurking here somewhere, but in case no-one has seen him, let me introduce Maximillian Masterfell (Masterful)! With his companion Professor Theodosia Thrumm!

Maximillian is sporting a well made Top Hat *(Buckram and all). and his mechanical arm had my inventor friend baffled about how it would work! That was fun!

He's on my list to make for a pattern one day!

Here they are in the 2012 Steam Punk Exhibition, held in Oamaru's Forrester Art Gallery!

Tuesday, August 13, 2013

This wonderfully constructed doll was made by Vera Drozdov, of Russia!Vera, (Bepa) made the doll so faithfully from my pattern Jeanne - the Innkeepers wife! She made such an excellent job of it and I am really delighted to share it here!

Look at the boots! Very professional looking! But what a fabulous face! I am very impressed! What do you think?